The Guardian: Main section

Monday 6 February 2006

Leaders and replies p34

Leader: For years there has been something oddly dear to the national psyche about shared chores, spartan dormitories and the espionage of hiding the car out of sight of the warden - all characteristics of the traditional family visit to a youth hostel.

Leader: Lucky or sinister numbers are a feature of most cultures. But in modern societies the symbolic power of round numbers can take on a significance that would once have been the preserve of religious ritual or doctrine.

Leaders and replies p35

Letters: Following Eric Allison's report (Barbaric trips endured by pregnant prisoners, February 1), we ask the home secretary to put an immediate stop to transporting pregnant women in the prison vans known to inmates as "sweatboxes".

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